It was thought with the disbanding of the International Cricket Captain 2000
development team there would be no more games in this series. Despite all of the original
team (myself included) now working elsewhere none of us wanted the series to end. Chris
Child, the original designer of the ICC series, contacted all the team and between us we
decided to approach Empire with the idea of doing an update. Empire have agreed and
development has now finished. The game will be released at the end of June.

Important points

All work on ICC 2001 is being done in the developers spare time. We all have full
time jobs elsewhere so will be working when we can at weekends.

ICC 2001 will be based on ACC 2000 (unfortunately never got released but was an
update of ICC 2000 for Australia). It will have all the latest players stats and fixtures
for the English domestic 2001 season. This will be the bulk of the development work.

There will be an option to play the Ashes series.

There is unfortunately no time available to add new features as we want to
guarantee the game will be available before the Ashes start.

The on-line game will be changed to try and remove some of the anti-social
cheating (deliberate disconnections and arranged 4 day matches). Hopefully the 4 day game
will be fixed to play properly (unfortunately 4 day games were unable to be fixed).

Due to the changes to the server there will need to be a new on-line server for
ICC 2001. Network codes from ICC 2000 will not be valid for ICC 2001.

We have strongly suggested to Empire (and they have listened) that as the game is
a data update as opposed to a full release the game be priced accordingly. The release
price will be £19.99.

ICC 2001 will include the full game - you will not need to own ICC 2000.

2001 is a big year for cricket with the Ashes at stake. Also for once there is
no other major sporting event (Olympics, Euro Championship) to clash with the cricket. It
is hoped that this update will be successful and a return to full time development for a
fully featured ICC 2002 could result. All the development team are very pleased to be able
to continue the series